Things got absolutely wild on CNN as former MSNBC host Tiffany Cross desperately tried to dismiss reporting on the Somali migrant daycare fraud scandal in Minnesota, claiming, ridiculously, that the in-person, on the ground reporting done by independent journalist Nick Shirley could be dismissed.
As background, Shirley detonated a nuclear bomb in the news when he posted a 42-minute video showing him visiting a slew of day care centers around Minnesota, with the video showing them to essentially all be scam centers run by Somali migrants in the state, with the fraud adding up to absolutely immense amounts of taxpayer dollars.
The left went, as could probably be predicted, absolutely berserk about the news, claiming that it was fake and that the Somali migrants were generally law-abiding. That fury from the left went into overdrive when the Trump Administration’s HHS announced that it was cutting off funding to Minnesota in response to the scandal.
Leading the attempt to discredit the reporting was “CNN NewsNight” host Abby Phillip, who snapped, in an angry rant about Shirley’s video, “He goes to the facilities, some of them had already been closed for some time. Minnesota officials say that each of the facilities that he visited had been visited at least once in the last six months.”
Continuing, Phillip ridiculously insisted that the obviously fraudulent daycare centers weren’t committing fraud because Tim Walz said so, snapping, “And so far, they found no evidence of fraud. So, shouldn’t he have to provide actual evidence of fraud before just walking up to a building and saying fraud is happening here?”
Chiming in, Tiffany Cross bizarrely insisted that the reporting was not believable because the doors of the daycare center had been locked, saying, “Who is he? Like who gave this guy license to go around and say, I couldn’t get in the daycare centers? The doors were locked. Like nobody should be able to walk into a daycare center because the doors are locked.”
She went on to insist that exposing fraud was “vigilante justice” that couldn’t be tolerated, saying, “These random vigilante justice, something that people in this country know a lot about, these random vigilante justice seekers who ordained themselves like some sort law enforcement expert, like he’s a random YouTuber.”
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Still not done, Cross angrily suggested that it was un-Christian to not want to let Somalis pilfer welfare programs and taxpayer resources, saying, “And I just find it laughable that the party of the self-proclaimed pro-life people are celebrating cutting off funding to children. The white evangelical crowd who purports to uphold these Christian values are celebrating targeting communities because of their ethnicity and cutting off care to children. It’s utterly ridiculous, and I have to say only a deplorable human being cannot decisively say it is wrong to target this community.”
Cross added, “We all heard what Donald Trump said from the White House. To pretend that this is some sort of opinion versus this opinion, no, we hear this right now and so we have to call these things out with outrage, with righteous indignation that this type of thing, one day it’s the Somali community, the next day it’s another community. What is hard about saying this is awful? What is hard about saying we should all care about children?”
Watch the ridiculous segment here:
Featured image credit: screengrab from the embedded video